Hello List,
From anyones experience, could anyone please reccomend me a webcamera which has
low noise at low light levels?
I think firewire is the way to go, for example the "iBOT firewire" as it is just a straight AVI data transfer format (no data compression at the camera like USB1.1) (as far as I'm aware) Naturally the compression would cause a problem in terms of noise, unless I'm mistaken.
I'm not sure what the story is with USB2.0, whether it compresses the video stream or not, but I would really like to know this, as firewire webcamera's are virtually impossible to buy in the shops here in Éire...
I also heard from this list that CCD devices are less noisy compared to CMOS...Is that true?
Any information would be greatly helpful and appreciated
I need that low noise solution!
All the best, and Thanks, David
I'm using pd/gem with winxp and 98se (on two diff. machines)
On Mar 19, 2005, at 4:31 PM, David McCarthy wrote:
Hello List,
From anyones experience, could anyone please reccomend me a webcamera which has
low noise at low light levels?
I think firewire is the way to go, for example the "iBOT firewire" as it is just a straight AVI data transfer format (no data compression at the camera like USB1.1) (as far as I'm aware) Naturally the compression would cause a problem in terms of noise, unless I'm mistaken.
I have an iBot for testing with GEM and it has absolutely appalling low light image quality. Actually, it looks awful at any light level. I recommend any other Firewire camera over that thing.
yup, also, iBot is kind of old already, you better find some newer stuff, I've got a iSweet which is not really good, but it may be a good choice if you think 350,000 pixels will be enough.
I'm not promoting mac products but may be iSight is an option since its quality is kind of ok (a bit better than iSweet). But I don't know if you can use it on WinXP.
Cheers, SFS
On 20 Mar 05, at 3:48 AM, chris clepper wrote:
On Mar 19, 2005, at 4:31 PM, David McCarthy wrote:
Hello List,
From anyones experience, could anyone please reccomend me a webcamera which has
low noise at low light levels?
I think firewire is the way to go, for example the "iBOT firewire" as it is just a straight AVI data transfer format (no data compression at the camera like USB1.1) (as far as I'm aware) Naturally the compression would cause a problem in terms of noise, unless I'm mistaken.
I have an iBot for testing with GEM and it has absolutely appalling low light image quality. Actually, it looks awful at any light level. I recommend any other Firewire camera over that thing.
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